developing longer term and responsive strategies for deep social transformation
We aim to create a space to think critically, to ask challenging and transformative questions, and to find deeper inspiration and understanding to empower social change. It will support us to learn from each otherās struggles and experience, combining new analytical frameworks, deep reflective inquiry, and applied learning.
The training will be integrated with the Movement Strategy Module of the MLC year+ programme, as well as kick off themes related to the Movement Learning Module.
We will be exploring the key challenge we hear again and again across our movements: that our movements lack the capacity to develop longer term and responsive strategies for deep social transformation. Social change is highly complex, as are social movements themselves, and strategising at this level requires more than simply upscaling the tools we might use for individual organisations and campaigns. Weāll look for responses to this challenge by drawing on case studies, and exploring skillsets and tools for strategizing at scale and amidst volatile and unpredictable conditions.
Weāll explore themes including:
The event will be designed to complement the Movement Strategy module of the year-long Movement Learning Catalyst Programme.
Preparation and follow up
The course will be designed to integrate with the Movement Strategy Module and some additonal preparatory reading and reflection may be required, as well as some participation in an online discussion forum with co-participants. An online follow up process will help us to continue to share our learning with each other as we carry our learning back into our day to day work.
Venue
The training will take place at the Ulex Project centre in Catalunya.
To Apply
Use the button on this page to apply. All MLC participants will be offered a place as priority until October 8th. After this any reamining places will be opened up to other applicants. Places are limited and places will be allocated to eligible applicants on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Travel Support
Limited bursaries are available to MLC programme participants. If you require travel support, please indicate in the particpant form and one of the Ulex team will contact you to discuss details.
Financial Contributions
Ulex operates on a solidarity economy basis. We don’t charge for our work and do not expect financial contribtions for attendance. However, if you can support our work, please do consider making a contribution. See the solidarity economy description following the link below.
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Sergio (all pronouns) was born in Romania and migrated to Germany in the early 2010s. In the past, he was a social worker with homeless people and a social consultant for Eastern European migrants for various organisations. Trained as a filmmaker, he spent two years making a documentary about the ācivic reawakeningā in Romania and the waves of protest it brought with it. In connection to this, Sergio is currently co-steering the development of an online open-source participative knowledge production platform on activism in Romania. Over the past nine years, Sergiu has offered his skills to various journalists, grassroots collectives and campaigns, mostly working within the labour rights, climate justice, international solidarity and anti-authoritarian movements in Germany and Romania. Nonetheless, his biggest focus since 2020 has been his work as an organiser with the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union, where he focuses mostly on organising Romanian migrant workers on construction sites, in factories and in the agricultural field.
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Ulex: del LlatĆ, (argelaga en catalĆ ) nom:
1. Arbust espinós de fulla perenne i floració, amb gran capacitat de regeneració i resistĆØncia. Les seves pues s’obren en entrar en contacte amb el foc i torna a brollar dels tocones carbonitzats. Planta successional que creix bĆ© en condicions difĆcils. Millora la fertilitat del sòl mitjanƧant la fixació de nitrogen, preparant el terreny per a una renovada biodiversitat.
2. Una opció tradicional per a encendre focs. Crema amb intensitat i lluentor.
3. Un projecte en xarxa que aporta nutrició i fertilitat als moviments socials europeus a través de la formació